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Nuns accused of conversion, forced to get off train in Jhansi

Two nuns and two trainees travelling along with them on a train were forced to deboard in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi railway station and detained briefly for questioning, after ABVP members accused them of illegal conversions. The four were allowed to resume their journey after an enquiry by railway officials found there was no conversion involved. […]

Indian bishops’ study reveals grim life of tribal migrant workers

A new study sponsored by Catholic bishops in India has revealed the grim reality for most tribal migrant workers in the capital New Delhi where they suffer from endemic poverty and low wages amid an absence of workplace safety and socio-economic security. The study, ‘Tribal Migrants in Delhi City: A Pre Covid and Post Covid […]

Nine arrested over mob lynching in eastern India

Police in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand have arrested nine people in connection with the mob lynching of a 26-year-old Muslim man on the outskirts of Ranchi. According to media reports, this was the second such incident in the state capital in one week. Earlier, a 22-year-old man was beaten in the Upper Bazar […]

Faithful will question pastoral letter’s sanctity: Vijayan

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has flayed a pastoral letter read in some churches of the Quilon diocese against the southern Indian state’s Left Democratic Front government. The sanctity of the pastoral letters will be questioned by devotees, the chief minister said March 26. They (a section of church leadership) are attacking the government just […]

Bajrang Dal denies role in Kerala nuns’ harassment

The Bajrang Dal has denied involvement in a controversial March 19 incident where two nuns and two students were forced alight from a train in Jhansi over an alleged forced conversion complaint and questioned by railway police. According to reports, Bajrang Dal activists and police questioned the nuns, who are members of the Sacred Heart […]

Eight Indian Christians hospitalized after attack by Hindu mob

Eight Christians were injured and hospitalized when Hindu radicals attacked them and accused them of religious conversion in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. More than 150 Christians were praying in a house church on March 8 in Dantewada district when the Hindus attacked them with axes, stones and wooden clubs, injuring several of them, […]

Experts express concern over India’s downgrading in freedom rating

Experts have expressed serious concerns over the downgrading of India’s status from ‘the world’s largest democracy to an ‘electoral autocracy’ and from a “Free Country” to a “Partly Free Country” in the international reports. They expressed their views in a group discussion held by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) here on the topic of the impact of […]

UN selects Indian Catholic to represent Asia’s indigenous languages

United Nations has nominated a Catholic activist and educationist from the eastern Indian Jharkhand state as the indigenous languages’ representative for Asia. Anabel Benjamin Bara was selected on March 19 from Asia by UNESCO for the Global Task Force of International Decades of Indigenous Languages (IDIL) 2022-2032. The appointment letter signed by Xing Qu, UN […]